13. “The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.” —Stephen King

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15. “The fact is that writing is hard work, and sometimes you don’t want to do it, and you can’t think of what to write next, and you’re fed up with the whole damn business. Do you think plumbers don’t feel like that about their work from time to time? Of course there will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP.” —Philip Pullman